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Timbals of Foie Gras a LA Beatrice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Timbals of Foie Gras a LA Beatrice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Line little egg molds with a thin layer of strong aspic jelly.

  2. Decorate with shredded lettuce, gherkins, tarragon, and red chili, then set with a little aspic jelly.

  3. Fill centers with strips of pâté de foie gras and truffle, add more aspic jelly, and chill on ice.

  4. Line a border mold with aspic jelly and decorate the edge similarly.

  5. Fill the border mold with aspic and chill until set.

  6. To serve, dip molds in warm water and turn out onto a plate.

  7. Fill each space with chopped aspic using a piping bag, and place an egg shape on top.

  8. Garnish with chopped aspic jelly and quartered eggs sprinkled with chopped truffle and red chili.

  9. Add a mixture of salad oil, tarragon vinegar, chili vinegar, and mignonette pepper to the vegetables.

  10. Pipe thick mayonnaise in each corner of the dish with a piping bag, and serve as a cold entrée.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lettuce + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tarragon + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Lettuce + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Truffle + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tarragon, truffle, chicken, vinegar, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tarragon, truffle, chicken, vinegar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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